The distorted, false beliefs of schizophrenia patients are called ____.

Many psychologists attribute the disorganized thinking of schizophrenia to a breakdown in the capacity for ___ ___.

The disturbed perceptions of people suffering from schizophrenia may take the form of ___, which usually are (visual/auditory). Some victims of schizophrenia lapse into a zombielike state of apparent apathy, or ___ ___; others who exhibit ___, may remain motionless for house and then become agitated.

People with schizophrenia who display inappropriate behavior are said to have ___ ___, while those with toneless voices and expressionless faces are said to have ___ ___.

Schizophrenia is a cluster of disorders, including five subtypes: preoccupation with delusions or hallucinations, or ___; disordered speech or behavior, or ___; immobility, or ___; many and varied symptoms, or ___; and withdrawal, or ___.

When schizophrenia develops slowly (called ___ schizophrenia), recovery is (more/less) likely than when it develops rapidly in reaction to particular life stresses (called ___ schizophrenia).

The brain tissue of schizophrenia patients has been found to have an excess of receptors for the neurotransmitter ___. Drugs that block these receptors have been found to (increase/decrease) schizophrenia symptoms.

Brain scans have shown that many people suffering from schizophrenia have abnormally (high/low) brain activity in the ___ lobes.

Enlarged, ___-filled areas and a corresponding ___ of cerebral tissue is also characteristic of schizophrenia,. Schizophrenia patients also have a smaller-than-normal ___, which may account for their difficulty in filtering ___ ___ and focusing ___.

Some scientists contend that the brain abnormalities of schizophrenia may be caused by a prenatal problem, such as ___ ___ ___; birth complications, such as ___ ___; or a ___ ___ contracted by the mother.

Twin studies (support/do not support) the contention that heredity plays a role in schizophrenia.

The role of the prenatal environment in schizophrenia is demonstrated by the fact that identical twins who share the same ___ and are therefore more likely to experience the same prenatal ____, are more likely to share the disorder.

It appears that for schizophrenia to develop there must be both a ____ predisposition and other factors such as those listed earlier that "___ ___" the ___ that predispose this disease.

Personality disorders exist when an individual has character traits that are enduring and impair ___ ___.

A fearful sensitivity to rejection may predispose the ___ personality disorder. Eccentric behaviors, such as emotionless disengagement, are characteristic of the ___ personality disorder. The third cluster exhibits dramatic or ___ behaviors, such as the ___ or ___ personality disorders.

Some studies have detected early signs of antisocial behavior in children as young as __________. Antisocial adolescents tended to have been ___, ___, unconcerned with ____ ___, and low in ___.

PET scans of murderers' brains reveal reduced activity in the ___ ___, an area of the cortex that helps control ___.

As in other disorders, in antisocial personality, genetics (is/is not) the whole story. In one study, two combined factors -- ___ ___ and a gene that altered neurotransmitter balance -- predicted antisocial behavior.